It seems as though a steadily increasing proportion of television and out-of-home ads contain a hashtag as an implicit call-to-action. There it is, in the corner of the poster or the last couple ...

From terrorist attacks and high-profile deaths, to discussions about social issues, hashtags have given social media users the opportunity to participate in the big conversations taking place online.

The intention of this was to limit spamming of popular topics with unrelated updates, but it also highlighted the declining value of manual hashtags, because modern algorithms and sorting systems are ...

Elon Musk’s criticism of hashtags as unnecessary and ugly has ignited a debate on their relevance on social media. Reactions ...

Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), has declared hashtags obsolete and visually unappealing. He urged users to ...